Reynold C. Fuson

Reynold Clayton Fuson (born 1 June 1895 in Wakefield (Illinois ); † August 4, 1979 in Breslau ) was an American chemist (organic chemistry).

Fuson made ​​initially trained as a teacher at Central Normal College in Danville (Indiana) and then studied chemistry at the University of Montana, at the University of California, Berkeley PhD with the master's degree and was at the University of Minnesota. As a post - graduate student he was at Harvard University in EP Kohler and 1927 instructor and later professor at the University of Illinois. In 1963 he retired and was for fourteen years a visiting professor at the University of Nevada.

He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and received the 1953 William H. Nichols Medal, for pioneering work in stable enols, diols, unusual Grignard reactions and nucleophilic substitutions.

He was co-editor of Organic Syntheses and the Journal of Organic Chemistry. He has published 285 scientific papers. He supervised 154 graduate students.

Writings

• Advanced Organic Chemistry, Wiley 1950
• With HR Snyder: Organic Chemistry, 2nd Edition, Wiley, 1954 ( first Wiley / Chapman and Hall 1942)
• Letter Course in Organic Chemistry, Ann Arbor 1940
• Organic Chemistry: Lectures for the advanced student, Ann Arbor 1939
• With Ralph Lloyd Shriner The systematic idenfication of Organic Compounds, Wiley / Chapman and Hall 1935, 1940, 1948
• Reactions of organic compounds; a text book for the advanced student, Wiley 1962